The #77 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Christian Ried, Lorenzo Ferrari and Gian Maria Bruni took pole in the LMGTE class at Monza this afternoon for tomorrow’s European Le Mans Series race. The team posted a lap of 1:48.859, 0.246 seconds ahead of the #83 Iron Lynx Ferrari of Sarah Bovy, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting.
P3 in the class goes to the Porsche of Absolute Racing with Andrew Haryanto, Martin Rump and Alessio Picariello posting at time of 1:49.521.
In the prototype classes the #17 Cool-Racing Ligier JS P320 Nissan of Maurice Smith, Michael Benham and Malthe Jakobsen took pole position in LMP3 whilst the overall pole went to the LMP2 of TDS RAcing X Vaillante. The #31 Oreca 07 Gibson of Philippe Cimadomo, Mathias Beche and Tijmen Van der Helm claimed pole with a lap of 1:38.032.
The 4 Hours of Monza gets underway at 12:30 CEST on Sunday.
Photos by Alessio Romanò.
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